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• Beetroot pickle, you say?

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 419
    Certainly sir. And garlic, too. And a box of recipe cards from the fabulous Ganapati south London south Indian kitchen.    
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• Book Stock Watch: Price Wars and Borders

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 659
  The Motley Fool took a hard look at Borders this week, writing : "Circuit City, once a well-known retail fixture, is no more. If it cant survive this holiday seasons impending price war, bookseller Borders (NYSE: BGP) could be next." GalleyCat has been tracking the stock performance of the major companies that ...
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• Amazon.com to Publish Three More BookSurge Titles

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 659
  In February, Amazon.com (AMZN) will publish three books previously published by the Amazon-owned self-publishing company, BookSurge . The books will continue the booksellers experimental AmazonEncore program--taking books from Amazons print-on-demand outfit and producing them in Amazons publishing unit. When ...
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• Handwritten Bible Auctioned on eBay

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 659
  After a nine month tour of 90 cities in 40 different states, the Bible Across America project has produced two handwritten copies of the Bible--individual verses copied by more than 30,000 people. One handwritten copy of book-2,200 11 x 17 pages--is being auctioned on eBay to benefit Biblica . As of this ...
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• The Sarazens head without New-gate: time for some gushy good feelings

  
  Bookphilia.com — Authority: 117
  While I continue to meditate on how to infuse new life into my blog (or to my feelings about my blog), I will fulfill a long overdue promise: waxing ecstatic on whats so great about being a self-employed bookseller. If the following begins to look suspiciously therapeutic, like a gratitude list for some kind of ...
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• Good News about the Future of Reading in NYC

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 659
  In a rapid-fire survey of 100 Manhattanites, New York magazine discovered some encouraging statistics about the future of reading--at least in New York City. According to the survey, a whopping 67 percent of the interviewees spent $50 or more on books over the last year. Nineteen percent actually spent more than ...
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• Can I ask you, whats the bookshop ettiquette?

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 419
  A customer asks me, picking up a copy of Legend of a Suicide by David Vann: Ive ordered a copy of this from the shop down the road and theyve phoned to tell me that its arrived, but I could just buy it from you now. What should I do? I think you should buy it from me, I say. (And then later, I will round up ...
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• Aussie books secure!

  
  Speakeasy — Authority: 106
  Just a quick post to share the joy… The parallel importation of books decision has been finalised : in a win for writers and readers alike, the Productivity Commission’s recommendations have been completely rejected by the Australian government. In face-savingly stern terms, the Australian government is ...
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• Andrew Sullivan Experiments with POD Book at Atlantic

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 659
  In a print-on-demand experiment, Atlantic blog readers have pledged to buy more than 1,100 copies of a new book--potentially reducing individual book price by ten dollars. When blogger Andrew Sullivan built a book of reader-submitted window pictures called " The View From Your Window ," he decided to see how ...
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• reinventing bookselling

  
  Ask Nicola — Authority: 609
  Heres a Guardian article , nominally about Waterstones, a UK book chain ("When it started, Waterstones was a breath of fresh air. But as it got ever bigger, many say it lost its soul. What effect has that had on publishing?"). Read it. Its a condensed history of how book selling changed. Theres a parallel story, ...
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• Obituary for a chain bookstore

  
  Bookavore — Authority: 103
  This is not an indie bookseller dancing on a chain bookstore grave. This is me pouring one out for the folks who taught me to love bookselling. Borders Group announced last week that, by the end of January 2010, they expect to have closed 200 Waldenbooks bookstores (most of which at this point have been branded as ...
  6 days ago

• Todays special word is,

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 419
  Todays special word is, to mark the occasion of Crystal Palace V Middlesborough at Selhurst Park this afternoon, and in honour of , so I am told, one of the nicest men to ever put on an Eagles top, SOUTHGATE. Say the word at the counter today and tomorrow and get a 10% discount on any purchase excepting Book Tokens ...
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• Glenn Beck Thrills Publishers

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 659
  Over the last year, author and conservative commentator Glenn Beck has interviewed 40 thriller writers, from David Baldacci to James Patterson , becoming a coveted new stop on the book tour trail for publishers. In a NY Times article about this phenomenon, thriller author Brad Thor quipped: "Hes ...
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• How to Be Bully Smart — Yikes!

  
  James Preller's Blog — Authority: 465
  This dated video offers helpful advice for victims of bullying . . . if they wish to receive the beating of their lives. On a different note, I received some good news about Bystander . Based on a vote by independent booksellers from around the country, Bystander has been listed as one of 60 titles in their ...
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• Secret of Amazons Wealth: Settle Bills in 72 Days, Says WSJ

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 544
  "Take the cash and let the credit go." Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Of all the factors contributing to the crisis in the publishing industry, slow settlement of bills by the major bookstore chains might well be considered the most grievous. It was bad enough they stalled beyond the traditional 30-day lag adopted by ...
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• Nice sale!

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 419
  Part of our special 3 for 3 promotion.  
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• Picturing the London Book Trade

  
  Wessel & Lieberman — Authority: 99
  Bernard Shapero "Bookdealing must be amongst the most wonderfully eccentric professions on Earth" - Mike Tsang Photographer Mike Tsang had recently returned to London from a demanding project in the Sudan when he popped in to visit his friend who was then manager of the Biblion bookshop in London. By the ...
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• Picturing the London Book Trade

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 519
  Bernard Shapero "Bookdealing must be amongst the most wonderfully eccentric professions on Earth" - Mike Tsang Photographer Mike Tsang had recently returned to London from a demanding project in the Sudan when he popped in to visit his friend who was then manager of the Biblion bookshop in London. By the ...
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• My customer sways in front of the counter like a drunk leaving the pub at midnight.

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 419
  Question, he says, you used to have all your cards along the left-hand wall, didnt you? No, I say. Never. Never had our cards along the left-hand wall. Pah! he says. I look at my watch. Although it is only just past mid-day, he is drunk. Very drunk. I have some sympathy with this - for a large part of the 1980s ...
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• 12 Canadians in the running for IMPAC award

  
  CanCult.ca — Authority: 131
  The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist has been announced, and a number of Canadians have made the first cut . Steven Galloway, one of the favourites, says he’s not holding his breath . Posted in bookselling/publishing, literature
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